Lets talk about Housing

[Reinheart]

We got lots of housing stuff coming in 2.1
380 parts in 2.1 and wanting to add about 50 more every patch.

You can see the housing video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_15TJde09E

Some info I translated regarding housing on things the devs wants to do (I'll replace this with official translated one later)
Rep Post 10/02/13 Things devs wants to add for housing in the future

JP side has a thread talking about what kinds of stuff they want to see inside housing.

こんにちは。
「すぐ実装します！」とはいえないのですが…　（と前置きをしつつ、）
Hello,
Can’t say will release it right away! But we would like to add many things such as:

• フリーカンパニーをまるで参謀本部のようにする作戦ボード
  Have a operations board for the Free Company
• いろいろな曲が聴けるジュークボックス
  Have a Juke Box where you can listen to different types of music
• 過去のファイナルファンタジーシリーズに関連したアイテム
  Have items related to past Final Fantasy series
• マネキン
  Mannequin
• 水槽
  Fish tank (Aquarium)

などなど、将来追加したいと考えているものはいくつもありますので、ぜひ楽しみにお待ち下さい。
（植木鉢をおいて栽培というのは、畑のような形で実装したいなと思っています。）
Please look forward to it!
(As for having pots to grow plants, we want to release this in a form of a farm)

Now... What kind of things do you and your FC, friends want to see?

[Alavastre]

I like all of these ideas. Maybe tie in the growing plants with botany?

[Roci]

The two mmos that I think did housing the best, from the past, are DAOC and EQ2. I liked the feel of hanging trophies for folks to see and having a "shop" that was usable by all. I also liked expansion based items like portals that could be placed in the housing.

[Errors]

Have they mentioned if housing personal and Free Company will be in all city states?

Last I read it was only going to be released (for 2.1) in Limsa. T_T

[Reinheart]

Have they mentioned if housing personal and Free Company will be in all city states?

Last I read it was only going to be released (for 2.1) in Limsa. T_T

All 3 will be available at 2.1, they showed Limsa & the new Ul'dah during TGS and most likely Gridania's housing will be shown in next Producer Letter Live coming sometime this mid-October.

[Rillifane]

Now... What kind of things do you and your FC, friends want to see?

Raising of plants/animals harvest moon style so i can butcher them for their webs, skins, meat and sinews so i don't have to compete with other people for drops.

[Elegance]

Raising of plants/animals harvest moon style so i can butcher them for their webs, skins, meat and sinews so i don't have to compete with other people for drops.

Darn it now I want to go play harvest moon again. :/

[Khalus]

Frequent "Community Events"{or dev run} in the general housing district for all to participate in, otherwise it'll just be another lifeless zone devoid of players. {Examples that I recall: LOTRO and DAoC}

Raising of plants/animals harvest moon style so i can butcher them for their webs, skins, meat and sinews so i don't have to compete with other people for drops.

As great as that sounds, that'll never happen. However, keep an eye on Stardew Valley, the ultimate in Harvest Moon style indie games. Still in dev though and looking better every update!

[Shougun]

Uh.. here is a you know what I mean if you know statement.

"I hope the houses look about the right size on the outside that they are from the inside". (just ignore me if you have no idea lol)


Unedited stream of thought of wants XD:
Ponds, gardens (both planted and potted), greenhouses, trees, garage, extensive house modules that change interior and exterior (say placing a patio, shop front, or garage example), extended patio, howels moving castle door (portal to fixed locations ideally to the three cities), crafting centers, personal chests and magitek autosorters, magitek themes in general.. ima hire cid to decorate my house bye bye gil

you know.. stuff ;P

I'd ultimately like to see an almost if not actual city like creation (not just one house, or even just "houses") but eh.. that'd be something unlikely - only thing that makes me weary of adding too large of housing is that of course you need reason for players doing that. Likely in the way of crafting airships and other big things- would suck to not be able to do that if you didn't have the FC rich enough for the housing size (cant take part in a content because you cant get the money to buy the "Large" house to fit the airship gantry or something). I could imagine a player doing some sort of phased collaboration with NPCs to gain these features in a new city or just through GC.. but meh long ways away if at all.

Edit: didnt say yay but yay for the announced features thus far

[Altanas]

Inside my house I want the capability to turn it into whatever I desire, whether it be a private family house or perhaps design it like a public tavern. This will all depend on the functionality of decorating however whether it will be as restricted as FF11 who knows or more open like SWG.

...you know.. stuff ;P....city like creation...

It would be great to tailor the neighbourhood as well as the houses themselves. By all means allow individual players free reign over how they decorate their own houses but there needs to be a wider community aspect to all of this otherwise it will be as abstract as mog houses were in FF11. There should be amenities/services in addition to houses to make it a slice of downtown and not just a random boulevard where everyone keeps to themselves and doesn't know their neighbours(!).